El presente trabajo examina las prácticas relacionadas con la gestación, el nacimiento, la nominación y circulación de los niños entre la población mbyá guaraní de Argentina a fin de explorar el lugar social de los niños y la producción de su persona e identidad. Empiezo argumentando que lo religioso ocupa un lugar central en la constitución de las personas. Luego, examino algunas situaciones no ordinarias y disruptivas como el nacimiento de mellizos. Ellas permiten mostrar la manera como se asienta la persona mbyá en el grupo. Finalmente, abordo las excepciones a las prácticas tradicionales, pues la manera de apartarse de ellas muestra que en la cosmovisión mbyá se ha generado nuevos mecanismos de inclusión de los niños. / This paper examines the practices related to pregnancy, birth, naming, and circulation of children in order to approach to their socially constructed place among the Argentine’s Mbyá Guaraní. I begin by arguing that the religious values are central to their production as people. Then I examine some non-ordinary and disruptive situations, such as the conception and birth of twins, to show how a Mbyá person settles down in the group. Finally, I consider the exceptions to the traditional ways for they show that in the Mbyá worldview, new mechanisms of inclusion of children have been generated.

Generating personas based entirely on data has gained popularity. Personas describe characteristics of a user group in a human-like format. This project presents the persona creation process from raw data to evaluated personas for Zapiens’ knowledge management system. The objective of the personas is to learn about customer behavior and aid in customer communication. For the described methodology, platform log data was clustered to group the users. The quantitative approach is, thereby, fast, updatable, and scalable. The analysis was split into two different features of the Zapiens platform. Persona sets for the training component and the chatbot component of Zapiens were tried to be created. The group characteristics were then enhanced with data from user surveys. This approach proved to be only successful for the training analysis. The collected data is presented in a web-based persona template to make the personas easily accessible and sharable. The finished training persona set was evaluated using the Persona Perception Scale. The results showed three personas of satisfying quality. The project aims to provide a complete overview of the data-driven persona development process.

This paper is a case study of the Viking Age ship burial from Oseberg, Norway. The aim of this paper is to use the concept of persona developed within rhetoric’s, and to investigate if it is possible to apply it on archaeological materials such as the Oseberg burial. The concept of persona as developed by Birgitte Mral is to identify strategies used by individuals to change their personality in order to enable themselves as a part of the public sphere. It is argued here that applying persona is a complement method to use in archeological research with a focus on gender. Although gender theory has previously been implemented on the Oseberg find, the history of its interpretations is still deeply influenced by the original interpretations put forward after the excavation in 1904. Therefore, a discussion based on analogies is conducted to evaluate the use of persona in gender archaeology in relation to other archeological interpretations of the Oseberg burial. The case study has introduced persona in an archeological context and used persona as a method and theoretical framework to gain new perspectives on how archaeologists can study the people in a grave rather than larger cultural events. The analysis based on analogies showed how persona can be used as a reflective tool as well as a theoretical framework.

Desde los inicios de su existencia, la persona humana, ha sido el único ser que ha buscado autodeterminarse en su acción siguiendo las pautas de su naturaleza. Sin embargo, no todo ha sido progresivo y perfectible en ella, porque el desconocimiento profundo del valor de su esencia, ha causado la desorientación de su comportamiento individual y social, contradiciendo directamente su dignidad. La investigación cualitativa con abordaje bibliográfico: Reconocimiento del valor de la persona humana desde la argumentación filosófica de la dignidad tuvo como objetivo: describir y analizar el valor esencial de la persona humana desde el reconocimiento filosófico de su dignidad, contemplada también en el campo jurídico como el principio de todos los deberes y derechos. Para ello, se revisó los aportes de: T. Melendo, C. Landa, Á. Aparisi, Liliana B. Irizar, L. Rodríguez, L. Rodríguez, entre otros, así como base de datos LILACS, búsqueda avanzada en Google y bibliotecas de las universidad “Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo” y “San Martín de Porres”-Filial Norte. Las ideas centrales de los autores se recopilaron en Fichas Bibliográficas, Textuales y de Resumen para luego analizarlas. El criterio ético estuvo caracterizado por la objetividad responsable a los aportes de los autores y realidad esencialmente humana. El rigor científico estuvo determinado por la claridad, credibilidad y profundidad. Se concluye afirmando el trascendental aporte de la filosofía, como el camino más fiable y razonable para lograr el reconocimiento del verdadero valor humano desde su dignidad, con el fin de lograr la conformidad entre ser y actuar.

El presente trabajo de investigación tienen como propósito analizar y comprender los elementos esenciales de la concepción agustiniana del matrimonio como institución humano-divina y su relevancia en la actualidad. Para ello, se planteó en primer lugar la crisis actual por la que viene atravesando el matrimonio en nuestra sociedad. En segundo lugar, se hace una aproximación a diferentes autores que muestran la necesidad de reflexionar y defender la institución matrimonial como un bien en la sociedad. Finalmente, a la luz de Agustín de Hipona se realza el matrimonio como institución humana y divina; la bondad del matrimonio y los bienes que trae para conservación de la humanidad. Esta investigación es de tipo teórica-bibliográfica porque solo pretende exponer teóricamente la temática que es objeto de la investigación, fundamentando desde la filosofía y la teología. El resultado principal de esta investigación es la exposición de la relevancia en la actualidad de la concepción del matrimonio de San Agustín, teniendo en cuenta sus aportes que recae sobre los tres bienes fundamentales que son la fides, la prole y el sacramentum, bienes que están ligados a mantener la fidelidad hecha por los esposos en el consentimiento; así mismo que tiende a la generación de hijos y su cuidado para mantener la permanencia de la humanidad y finalmente es actual porque por ningún motivo desaparece la unión de los cónyuges antes estas ayudan al perfeccionamiento y trascendencia de la persona.

Volvo Construction Equipment står inför en stor omställning liksom många andra företag, då maskinerna ska elektrifieras och automatiseras. Agenda 2030 har 17 olika hållbarhetsmål (SDG) och mål nummer fem är jämställdhet, att män och kvinnor ska ha samma förutsättningar, rättvis fördelning av makt, resurser och inflytande. Detta vill Volvo CE ta i beaktning både när de skapar nya maskiner och vid rekrytering.  Syftet med examensarbetet är att undersöka hur företaget kan bli mer medvetna om hur de utvecklar maskiner och system utifrån ett jämställt perspektiv. Arbetet resulterade i ett verktyg med fem kriterier. Under varje kriterium finns frågor som Volvo CE kan ställa tidigt i produktutvecklingsprocessen, för att väcka tankar om hur de kan jobba för att nå SDG fem i Agenda 2030. Utöver verktyget har en framtidspersona skapats utifrån ett framtidsscenario och externa intervjuer, för att visualisera vilka framtidens kunder och användare kan vara.  Maskinerna ska uppfylla många krav och jämställdhet kan vara något som inte tas hänsyn till om det inte jobbas aktivt med. Det finns redan externa krav på Volvo CE att arbeta med jämställdhet för att nå Agenda 2030 och verktyget ska inte fungera som ännu ett krav utan förhoppningsvis en ögonöppnare och inspiration för hur jämställdhet kan tas hänsyn till i produktutvecklingsprocessen. / Volvo Construction Equipment is, like many other companies, facing a transformation where machines are becoming electric and automatic. There are 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) in Agenda 2030, where goal number five is equality, meaning that men and women have the same opportunities, a fair share of power, resources, and influence. Volvo CE wishes to consider this in development of new machines and in recruitment.  The purpose of this project is to investigate how the company can become more aware of equality when developing new products. The project resulted in a tool with five criteria. Below each criterion are questions that can be asked early in the product development process to raise awareness, thoughts, and new questions about how they are working with equality to achieve SDG five in Agenda 2030. Except the tool, a future persona has been created based on a future scenario and external interviews.  There are many requirements that need to be fulfilled regarding the machines and equality can easily be overlooked if not actively worked with. There are already external requirements on Volvo CE to actively work with equality within projects to reach Agenda 2030 and the tool is not supposed to apply new requirements but hopefully work as an eye opener and inspiration for how equality can be considered in the product development process.

Higher education continues to witness a significant increase in the demand for online courses delivered via the World Wide Web. Institutions are challenged to position and prepare faculty for successfully developing and delivering this increasing number of online courses from a distance. Becoming successful in the online classroom presents difficult and time-consuming challenges to the novice faculty member. Instructors who transition from the face-to-face classroom find that some characteristics, strategies and procedures carryover into the online classroom. The new teaching environment presents an evolving spectrum of possibilities for the online professor, a new paradigm for teaching and learning. This research provides a multi-dimensional case study of the online teaching persona of four successful undergraduate college professors. The literature presents mounting evidence of the growth and momentum of the online college education. Also, the literature presents evidence that multiple resources become necessary if best practices and strategies are to be successfully integrated into online courses. The research has found that a persona change occurs when the faculty member transitions from the face-to-face to the online classroom. Utilizing this foundation, this study adds to the literature and clarifies the online teaching persona, incorporated characteristics, and strategies used by four successful undergraduate professors in a large university setting in the southern United States. Using face-to-face interviews and (non-participant) class observation, this researcher determined the transitory nature of the online teaching persona of the four participants in the study. The study revealed the characteristics, methods and strategies that enable the online professor to successfully deliver undergraduate courses using the World Wide Web.

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Dans l’histoire de la construction philosophique de l’individualité, le système stoïcien, le plus unitaire et déterministe qui soit, semblait en principe être le moins susceptible d’engendrer une conception forte de l’individu. Celle-ci suppose en effet une séparation qui, dans le cas de l’individualité humaine, s’incarne dans une « volonté » propre. Or pour les Stoïciens, chaque être concourant inexorablement comme partie du tout à l’unité organique du monde, il paraissait difficile de l'en dégager, même en tenant compte de l’autonomie proclamée de l’assentiment, principe de jugement et d’action. Notre recherche espère montrer que c’est pourtant la philosophie stoïcienne qui construit une combinatoire conceptuelle inédite qui n’avait jamais été jusque-là à ce point unifiée et qui en vertu de la nature systématique de cette pensée conduit de l’unicité qu’elle reconnaît à tout être, ancrée dans un corps, à la personnalité qui réalise cette unicité au niveau de l’éthique, du fait d’une capacité subjective qui n’est plus non seulement quelque chose de l’individu mais ce à quoi il s’identifie, son principe d’identité personnelle. Nous nous attachons à mettre en évidence les conditions qui ont rendu possible ce « surgissement » de l’individu à la faveur d’une série de mutations internes au système stoïcien mais aussi d’une mutation politique et culturelle majeure, celle que constitua l’Empire romain. A travers ces mutations, la physique stoïcienne de l’identité, sous-bassement de la conception stoïcienne de l’individu, produit diachroniquement et synchroniquement, dans le champ de la psychologie et de l’éthique, une véritable conception de la subjectivation avec la notion sénéquienne de voluntas et le concept épictétéen de prohairesis qui en viennent à occuper la centralité dévolue au destin dans le premier stoïcisme. Par-delà la singularité des apports sénéquien et épictétéen, la voluntas et la prohairesis font de la faculté de choix le principe d’identité personnelle : l’identité personnelle est décrite comme celle du sens que nous décidons de donner à notre existence qui définit celle ou celui que nous sommes en propre et qui autorise et façonne la plasticité d’un usage de soi qui réside exclusivement en nous. Les usages stoïciens de la métaphore théâtrale permettent enfin d’éclairer cette conception de la subjectivité sous un jour irréductible : ils déploient chacun à leur manière la dialectique de la distance et de l’engagement au cœur du rapport à l’existence, et, avec eux, la non- coïncidence constitutive du rapport à soi qui situe l’identité dans l’entre-deux d’un rapport d’identification toujours à rejouer. / The Stoics, who elaborated the most coherent deterministic system in the history of philosophy, seemed unlikely to produce a concept of the individual. Such a concept is necessarily founded on separateness and implies personal agency. And although the Stoics insisted on the autonomy of assent as a principle of judgement and of action, they believed that each being contributed to the organic whole of the cosmos, making it difficult to consider beings separately from that whole. This inquiry seeks to show that the Stoics nevertheless elaborated a previously unexamined complex of notions that - as a result of the systematic nature of the Stoic thought - moved from the idea of uniqueness of all beings, to personality, which achieves uniqueness on an ethical level. Personality requires agency, which is not of the individual, but is instead that with which the individual is identified. It is the principle of personal identity. We will examine the conditions that enabled the “emergence” of the individual thanks to a series of transformations in the Stoic system as well as another major political and cultural transformation, the constitution of the Roman Empire. As a result of these changes, the Stoics’ conception of the individual, founded on their physical conception of identity, produced - diachronically and synchronically - a notion of both psychological and ethical subjectivation. Seneca’s notion of voluntas and Epictetus’s concept of prohairesis came to occupy the central position once held by fate for the early Stoics. Both these contributions were highly original, but voluntas and prohairesis further identified the principle of personal identity with the faculty of choice: personal identity was described as the meaning we decide to give our lives, defining who we are. It conditions our adaptability and shapes the way we make use of what is irreducibly ours. The Stoics’ use of the actor metaphor sheds light on the nature of subjectivity since it foregrounds the gap between the actor and his role. The dialectic between disengagement and commitment that is at the heart of the relationship to existence, and the consequent discrepancy in the relationship to oneself, leaves identity in the entre-deux of a continually renewed attempt at identification.

This essay aims to investigate how the leaders for the Swedish parliamentary parties appear on their official Instagram accounts. By conducting a discourse analysis, looking at both text, visual images, and the combination of the two in the Instagram posts, the intention is to analyse how gender is being performed through the rhetorical concept of persona.  The analysis show that all eight party leaders mainly enact political/professional personas. Sub-personas derived to this category are individual vs group member, active vs passive, and critic. The male party leaders exhibit the individual, active and critical personas to a greater extent than their female counterparts, and thereby performing gender in a stereotypically masculine way – reproducing the image of the stereotypical male politician. The analysis also finds that some party leaders, mainly female ones, use personal personas to a greater extent.  The conclusion is that all party leaders mainly use professional personas, profiling them as first and foremost politicians. But when looking at how the personas are carried out, the female party leaders can be seen using numerously more personas than the male ones, especially adding on personal personas. In addition to enacting the traditional female stereotype of having to handle both carrier and family, this may reward them with additional Instagram followers. But when the number of followers is put in relation to surveys of trust and opinion polls, the conclusion is that the party leaders exhibiting masculine coded personas are more prosperous in actual politics.